General motors is sitting on a lot of inventory right now. Camaros and Corvettes, in particular, have started to pile up at dealerships and Chevy needs to make room for 2018 model year inventory that will arrive this fall. Cue the discounts.

Carsdirect.com is reporting that Chevy will discount the Corvette of your choice by 10%. Now, given the steep discounts we periodically report on trucks, that may not seem very impressive, but like many factory discounts, it can serve as a starting point in negotiations, not an ending. Also, with Corvettes at a $100K plus price point at the high end of the trims, that can equate to a discount of as much as five figures.

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“The new Corvette ZR1 convertible is a supercar in all respects,” said Mark Reuss, executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain. “Few others can challenge the ZR1 convertible’s power and speed while offering the exhilaration of top-down motoring.”

The new lightweight convertible top adds less than 60 pounds and can be lowered and raised remotely and at speeds up to 30 MPH. As we recently reported, the Corvette ZR1 has a top speed of up to 212 MPH depending upon the aero package chosen and comes with a 755 hp V8 engine. GM plans to auction off the first ZR1 at a Barrett-Jackson event to benefit the veterans’ support group, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

John GorehamContributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com7-12-2017
Baseball's 2017 All-Star Game MVP, Robinson Canó, chose a new 2017 Corvette Grand Sport over a new 2017 Chevy Colorado ZR2 last night following the game. Financially, this is a sound move. The Grand Sport starts at $67K and the ZR2 ends at about $48k. Money aside, which would you have opted to drive away if you had the choice?

In case you missed the game, Seatle's Canó, who went 1-for-2 in the contest with a 10th inning home run, RBI and a run scored. Brian Sweeney, U.S. vice president of Chevrolet, commented on the game, saying, “Robinson Canó turned in a tremendous performance tonight and is an excellent example to all baseball fans, and especially our kids, that hustle, determination, and teamwork are what wins, and that is why Chevrolet is proud to present the MVP award."

Chevy didn't say if the ZR2 has a diesel engine or not, let's assume it had whatever you would prefer. What's your choice? Vette, or ZR2?

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Mazda Miata V8 conversions usually seem to use Ford engines for some reason. Ford has made some great V8s over the past century, but we'll take a Corvette engine any day. So did James and Janna Weeks. While Janna was serving in Afganistan, James began a resto-mod project for her in honor of her late mother, who they had inherited the NA-generation Miata from.

James told us that the Corvette engine was from another project and it replaced a turbocharged 1.8-liter engine that was the first engine upgrade to Zoom, the car you see above.

James told that Zoom us now sports a 5.7-liter LS6 V8 with modified heads, intake, and cam. The transmission is a T56 6-speed. The rear end is a Ford 8.8 with 3.08 gears. Zoom once ran to 156 MPH on the half-mile on a closed course. Then James and Janna turned on the nitrous and Zoom posted 165 MPH.

A huge V8 in place of a tiny 4-banger usually disrupts the balance of a conversion car. That is unless the engine coming out is iron and the one going in is aluminum. James says that the whole conversion added about 300 pounds total to the weight of the car and that the front to rear weight distribution is only 1% changed to 52/48.

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Both publications doubt this is the new base engine for the 2018 "Vette. That is because the base engine appears to also be listed in the service documents that are the basis of all this intrigue. Nor is the engine said to have forced induction (turbocharging or supercharging). That makes it unlikely to be the engine in any top-spec Corvette trim.

What say you GM-Trucks.com faithful? Is this dual overhead camshaft engine just a ruse or misunderstanding? Could it signal some kind of high-RPM, normally-aspirated engine for a special Corvette?

Image Note: That's not the engine in the story being built. Can anyone guess without cheating what that engine is?